{"id":420811,"date":"2026-04-28T00:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420811\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T00:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:29:17","slug":"small-outlets-under-pressure-to-take-the-coimisiun-na-mean-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420811\/","title":{"rendered":"Small outlets under pressure to take the Coimisi\u00fan na M\u00e9an soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are we to make of the fact that the biggest supplier of media grants in Ireland is now unexpectedly hiking levies on small radio broadcasters, potentially forcing them to be even more reliant on State subsidies to stay float?<\/p>\n<p>Coimisi\u00fan na M\u00e9an (CnM), the state\u2019s controversial media regulator and designated enforcer under the EU\u2019s Digital Services Act, recently notified broadcasters of a 39% average hike in the annual broadcast levy for 2026, in addition to last year\u2019s increases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get unlimited access to Gript<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What are we to make of the fact that the biggest supplier of media grants in Ireland is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14258,72,3584,61,60,1634],"class_list":{"0":"post-420811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-ben-scallan","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-coimisiun-na-mean","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-media"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}